Category: American Countryside
The Dusenberg
In northeast Indiana there is a town that once produced the top cars of the day. In this very showroom, some of the world’s biggest…
The Wonders of the Tuckaleeche Caverns
For centuries, people have recognized the natural beauty along the border of Tennessee and North Carolina. We call it the Smokie mountains, but Steven Fananda’s…
A Cavern Below the Smokey Mountains
Kids may go exploring when they have nothing better to do. Sometimes, those adventures can lead to trouble. But for this family, a wandering six…
A Circus Museum
It all began with Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles, and John. Without their last names, those first names might not mean anything to you. Put together…
Helping Rural Business Thrive in Developing Nations
Willie Foote saw farmers and farmer cooperatives in developing nations often struggling to survive. What resulted was a vision turned non-profit organization that is making…
Root Capital
American farmers know the financial difficulties that result from conditions that are often out of their control. Now imagine you are a small farmer in…
Limited Married Life at Fort Hays
(Hays, Kansas) – For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a young woman’s heart and ask her hand in marriage….
The Men at Fort Hays
The Army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks today. But in the late 19th Century, the reasons men enlisted…
Fort Hays, Kansas
(Fort Hays, Kansas) As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up across the high plains to protect travel and commerce….
From Silver Mines to Fields of Sheep
(Ketchum, Idaho) When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in; thousands of them, in fact! This place became one of the largest sheep exporting…